The Faith Of My Family

Yamilee and Austin began their lives in separate homes, cultures and religious denominations. And as they fell in love with each other, they fell out of the belief systems ingrained in them from childhood. This is their story.

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Education

Tags:

• atheist
• atheism
• agnostic
• skeptic
• science
• catholic
• pentecostal
• apostate

[red666111]

I'm not an expert on this or anything, but it seems to me that my parents generation (im 17) is probably going to be the last religious generation. In America, my generation will most likely slip into deism and agnosticism, and my the time my kids are having kids I think religion will be all but dead, perhaps clinging to life in the south - but dead for all intents and purposes. All I can say, is it is about damn time.

[paleflarelight]

@TZTSsnakebelt Science is not my 'god'. Science is a method of pursuing knowledge about the world. It builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. If there's any way to know anything about the creation of the universe, it's science that will discover it. Not some old books written by stupid and illiterate desert dwellers. As for my creator, I have two parents that 'created' me.

[paleflarelight]

@TZTSsnakebelt They might seem similar but there's a big difference. A hypothesis needs to be testable in the real world, faith does not. With a hypothesis, if no evidence or contradictory evidence is found, the hypothesis gets amended or discarded. When was the last time that happened with a religious belief?

[TZTSsnakebelt]

@jeuandavidjones You are not understanding my point. My point is: Do not judge religious people because your belief in science is just as unproved as their belief in a God or Supreme Being. The need for a something to have created the original matter demonstrates that your belief that something had to come from the nothingness is just as crazy as I believing my God created it.

[TZTSsnakebelt]

@paleflarelight A hypothesis is very similar to blind faith. There is never any assurance that a theory is right. You are believing in it solely on the faith that it is true. Despite any evidence to prove your theory, you still have to take a chance in believing that the theory is right when you have no proof.

[TZTSsnakebelt]

@paleflarelight They are both beliefs in things that can never be proven on Earth. They are very similar, as you are essentially placing science as your God. Naming it as your sole creator.

[akademikn3rd82]

@BalboaHealth

he's no prized possession himself. #justsaying

[BalboaHealth]

And he ended up with that... poor bastard.

[paleflarelight]

@TZTSsnakebelt As I stated already, science does require faith that there exists an objective external reality that is subject to certain physical laws. That's it. The big bang is a theory about the origin of the universe that is based on observed physical laws and phenomena. Your belief in god is not based on those laws. You need MORE faith to believe in god. Thus you're wrong, belief in science and religion is not the same.

[paleflarelight]

@TZTSsnakebelt You're right, you do need faith to believe in science. You need to make atleast two assumptions completely on faith: 1) There exists an external objective reality, and 2) There exists some sort of uniformity through time. Beyond those very basic assumptions, which are necessary just to function in the world, science attempts to minimize faith as much as possible. Religion encourages it. A hypothesis is not the same thing as blind faith.